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It is if you are living off government handouts, not so much if you're a taxpayer.
It is great if you are a tax payer too. Our taxes are the lowest among advanced countries. Our right wing just does the loudest whining with the least justification. Living in perpetual victimhood is the problem. It tends to ruin your day.
The US is a great nation if you buy into the "American Dream" which means:
A decent job or career (that keeps you out of poverty)
A nice house in the suburbs
2.3 Kids
HealthCare you can afford
2 cars in every Garage
A retirement plan (hopefully not tied to the whims of blood sucking Wall Street)
Tons of credit card debt & student loans you know you will never be able to pay
oh and a Chicken in every pot! (nice Roasters are nearly $10 or so now)
It is great if you are a tax payer too. Our taxes are the lowest among advanced countries. Our right wing just does the loudest whining with the least justification. Living in perpetual victimhood is the problem. It tends to ruin your day.
We don't get much for the super-sized taxes we pay though. We've got crumbling infrastructure, a sky high national debt, fast falling educational scores, and a fast rising welfare class.
We don't get much for the super-sized taxes we pay though. We've got crumbling infrastructure, a sky high national debt, fast falling educational scores, and a fast rising welfare class.
The only thing that we spend more than other peer countries on is the military. Yet, that is holy writ for most conservatives. Cut that by 40%, raise taxes by 2%, and we would be golden, and still have the lowest tax burden in the modern world. I don't see it happening, but I am not going to cry myself to sleep each night about it either.
The only thing that we spend more than other peer countries on is the military. Yet, that is holy writ for most conservatives. Cut that by 40%, raise taxes by 2%, and we would be golden, and still have the lowest tax burden in the modern world. I don't see it happening, but I am not going to cry myself to sleep each night about it either.
Conservatives still think we are in the "Cold War"! Why do we have so many Military bases across the world? There are cities in the US that would die without a Military base being the sole source of economic activity.
no, this country not great, and it hasn't been great for couple hundred years. its all about power now, not people. our founding fathers be rollin over in their graves. nothing today reflects what the constitution and our founding fathers goal. its all about money. every war we got into was about money. no our country has never been great
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